HyperPics: Beyond the UI

Autodesk Design Review is Now Free

Have you stayed away from using Autodesk Design Review for your extended team because of the cost?  Well in the world of DWF and collaboration things just got a little bit better.  Autodesk is now offering Autodesk Design Review for free which allows you to view DWG, DEXF, and DWF files from AutoCAD 2007 for the low cost of FREE, yes I typed FREE. Autodesk Design Review offers many benefits over just being able to open DWG and DXF files, like Markups and viewing animated assembly instructions.  To learn more about this exciting offer, head on over the Shaan Hurley's blog Between the Lines.

Sincerely,
  Lee

White Paper Explaining the Main Benefits of DWF

Autodesk has released a great new white paper detailing the many benefits and reasons why DWF is the best file format for publishing designs. It was very interesting and makes many great points. It also compares DWF to PDF as far as advantages go. One of the biggest things that I see with DWF yet is that there is no ability to attach a digital signature yet. Once I think DWF has this ability we will see more people migrate to use DWF files. It would also be nice to have the ability to Xref, but not bind a DWF file into a drawing.

The "DWF: The best file format for Published Design information" article can be read at the link on the Cadalyst site.

Sincerely,
  Lee